St. Paul daily globe., 1887-07-23
The Filibustering Opponents Of Sunday
Base Ball Get all Adjournment Be-
fore the Matter is Considered.
Patrclman Leonard's Case Considered
and he is DisCharged---Ten More
Liquor Licenses Granted.
Ladies of Stevens Avenue Make an I'm
availing Kick Against the Renewal
Of Their Street Cars.
The Station Agents to Meet Next Time
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Matters
Briefly Mentioned.
AN ADJOURNED MEETING.

The Council Makes Six Attempts
to Adjourn and Finally Sue
ceeds.
The council held an adjourned session
last evening. The principal business of
the session was the passage of a large
number of resolutions extending and
widening streets and ordering sewers
and sidewalks. Sewers were ordered
on NicOllet avenue, from TWenty-Sec-
Ond to 'ThirtY-tirSt street: on Riverside
avenue, from Nineteenth avenue south
to TWenty-SeYenth avenue south: on
TWentY-SeVenth street, from NicOllet
avenue to Fifth avenue south:
on Franklin avenue, from Cedar to Six.
teenth avenues south: in Vine Place,
from Oak Grove street to Prospect
street: on Second avenue south, from
Fifteenth street to Grant street. The
council then took up big pile of side
walk resolutions. There were seventy
three of them. and they were rushed
through after this fashion: Clerk Corn
eman: Sidewalk on President
Merrick: Observation-Disclosures
lution-will-aS their names called-an-
swer Tn-those-oppOSed no." Clerk:
"BarrowsC Clarke ClOugh," and so on to the
end OF the roll. ll.OccaSiOnally an unusually
attentive alderman was able to get in
an AYE" but as rule the only vote
cast was by Mr.. President, whose
affirmative vote insured a host of new
sidewalks.
The city clerk was authorized to issue
licenses TO dealers whose bonds were
reported as satisfactory by the city
attorney. Aid. Mills presented a report
from the committee on roads and
bridges. recommending that S700be paid
Thomas Erwin i'll full Of claim for prop
erty taken in opening Washington
street northeast; after some discussion
the report was referred to the city at
tOrney. Washington street was ordered
opened two years ago, but was not
brought to grade until this spring, when
Mr.. Erwin found his property damaged
as above. AS other property in the vi
cinity has been affected by the i'm
pr0vement, the city attorney will
consider the several claims together.
When the committee on railroads was
reached Aid. ClOutier handed i'll re-
port ordering the street railway COM
pany to take up its tracks Oh Stevens
avenue and operate line on Fourth
avenue south beyond Twentieth street
in its place. The report was adopted
without debate.
Repeated motions to adjourn had been
made to adjourn during the call Of COM
mitteeS, each one receiving more
affirmative votes than the last, until on
the fifth effort the council adjourned.
1t was noticeable that every motion tC
adjourn was made by an opponent OF
the Sunday base ball ordinance. They
evidently feared the ordinance would
pass if it came to vote last night. and
they did not succeed in their tilibuster
ing scheme until just before the call fOl
the report Of the ordinance committee
Adjournment was welcomed with {
shout by Aid. Johnson, and Aid. ClOu
tier sang out to the discounted bal
men, where's your Sunday ball play
ing nOw?'